Ocean Health

Loons and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Hannah Uher-Koch is the main logistics coordinator on the Earthwatch Loons and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill expedition, as well as a team leader and field biologist. For the past few field seasons, she has worked for the National Park Service studying the endangered piping plover, and for the United States Geologic Service studying yellow-billed and Pacific loons on Alaska’s North Slope.